capstone

Example Sentences

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But however felicitously Ms. Peck gathers all her dancers into a climactic grouping, her finale is less a theatrical capstone than a busy sum of her ballet’s many parts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

"A capstone is intended to challenge students to integrate skills, function as an effective team and demonstrate their ability to solve real problems. And this problem was a doozy."

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

"The detention of Zhang Youxia was the capstone arrest of the greatest series of purges in the history of China's PLA," experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote in a note.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

The Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture series honors the late journalist and is considered the capstone of the university’s Burkle Center for International Relations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

For this, he needed equipment to manage intense radioactivities and, as a capstone, a nuclear reactor—the one nuclear technology that had eluded Lawrence’s grasp.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik